The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
More William James Quotes
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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